Pyramid is an American television game show franchise that has aired several versions domestically and internationally. The original series, The $10,000 Pyramid, debuted March 26, 1973,[4] and spawned seven subsequent Pyramid series (most with a full title format matching the original series, with the title reflecting the top prize increase from $10,000, $20,000, $25,000, $50,000 to $100,000 over the years). The game features two contestants, each paired with a celebrity. Contestants attempt to guess a series of words or phrases based on descriptions given to them by their teammates. The title refers to the show's pyramid-shaped gameboard, featuring six categories arranged in a triangular fashion. The various Pyramid series have won a total of nine Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Game Show, second only to Jeopardy!, which has won thirteen.[5]

Dick Clark is the host most commonly associated with the show, having hosted every incarnation from 1973 to 1988, with the exception of the original version of The $25,000 Pyramid, which aired in weekly syndication from 1974 until 1979 and was hosted by Bill Cullen. The $100,000 Pyramid was revived for a brief 1991 run with John Davidson hosting. In 2002 the series was revived as simply Pyramid, with Donny Osmond hosting for two seasons. GSN's The Pyramid was hosted by Mike Richards and aired for a single forty-episode season before it was cancelled in 2012. A revival of The $100,000 Pyramid debuted June 26, 2016, on ABC with Michael Strahan as host.

The $10,000 Pyramid, with host Dick Clark, made its network debut on March 26, 1973[4] and was a ratings hit, sustaining its ratings even when episodes were delayed or preempted by the Watergate hearings. A year later, the ratings temporarily declined (against the original version of Jeopardy! on NBC) and CBS canceled it. The show was quickly picked up by ABC and began airing on that network on May 6, 1974. As per CBS custom at the time with celebrity game shows, three weeks of episodes for CBS were taped in Hollywood at CBS Television City, Studio 31.[6] The remainder of the 1973–81 episodes originated in New York City at the Ed Sullivan Theater, moving to ABC's Elysee Theatre after Pyramid switched networks.[7]

Title card of the 1980s (New) $25,000 Pyramid.

On September 20, 1982, the series returned to the CBS daytime lineup as The $25,000 Pyramid, again with Clark as host, but now taped in Los Angeles full-time at CBS Television City's Studio 33 (currently used for The Price is Right, which recognizes it as the "Bob Barker Studio") and remained there for the entire run up until December 31, 1987.[8]Blackout began airing in the series' 10:00 a.m. timeslot the following Monday, but that show was canceled after thirteen weeks of episodes. On April 4, 1988, The $25,000 Pyramid returned to the CBS daytime schedule; the show's final episode aired on July 1. The following Monday, the show was replaced by a revival of Family Feud hosted by Ray Combs.

The original $25,000 Pyramid and The $50,000 Pyramid were taped in the Elysee Theatre in New York, and the original version of The $100,000 Pyramid[9] taped at Studio 33 in Hollywood. The revival of The $100,000 Pyramid, hosted by John Davidson, ran from January until December 1991 and taped in Studio 31.[6]Pyramid, hosted by Donny Osmond, ran from September 16, 2002 to September 10, 2004 and was taped at Sony Pictures Studios. The Pyramid was taped at the CBS Studio Center. Strahan's The $100,000 Pyramid is taped at the ABC Television Center in New York.

Following CBS's cancellation of Guiding Light in April 2009, Pyramid was one of three potential series considered as a replacement for the veteran soap opera. (Let's Make a Deal and The Dating Game were the other two, with a pilot shot for the former series.) During the tapings that took place in June of that year at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York (marking the franchise's return to New York after 28 years), the top prize was raised to a potential $1,000,000 with a tournament format similar to the $100,000 format. Dean Cain and Tim Vincent were tabbed as hosts of the pilots, with $50,000 announcer Alan Kalter returning, and Sony Pictures game show legend Ken Jennings served as a panelist in the pilots.[10]

CBS passed on Pyramid and opted to pick up Let's Make a Deal, hosted by Wayne Brady, as Guiding Light's replacement. Several months later, in December 2009, CBS announced the cancellation of another long-running soap opera, As the World Turns. Pyramid was once again among the series being considered as a potential replacement.[11] CBS ordered a third pilot on April 9, 2010.[12]Andy Richter was identified as a potential host.[13][14]

On May 18, 2011, TBS announced development of a possible new version of Pyramid, again to be hosted by Andy Richter.[15] It was later announced[citation needed] that the show was not picked up.

Another pilot, titled The Pyramid, was taped on June 16, 2012.[16] On July 12, 2012, GSN announced The Pyramid had been picked up and would premiere on the network on September 3, with Mike Richards hosting the show.[17] The series ran for 40 episodes before being cancelled later in the year.

On January 9, 2016, ABC announced a revival of the series, specifically the $100,000 format, had been green-lit and set to air during the summer of 2016. This version also marked the return of the show to New York City, where it had originally been produced in the 1970s. The first season will comprise ten hour-long episodes, with Michael Strahan serving as host; due to the show's expansion to one hour, two games are played per episode. In addition, this will be the second incarnation of Pyramid to air in prime time on the network (the first was the one-off All-Star Junior Pyramid in 1979).[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] The series premiered on June 26 of that year, airing as part of ABC's "Sunday Fun & Games" lineup at 9:00pm ET/8:00pm CT (along with the Steve Harvey-hosted Celebrity Family Feud and the Alec Baldwin-hosted Match Game).[29][30][31][32] On August 4, 2016, ABC renewed The $100,000 Pyramid for a second season.[33] On June 11, 2017, the show moved to 10/9 central in order to pair it up with the seed-funding reality competition show Steve Harvey's Funderdome along with the third season of Celebrity Family Feud (both hosted by Steve Harvey) for which they aired at 9:00p.m./8:00p.m. and 8:00p.m./7:00p.m. Central, respectively. On August 6, 2017, ABC announced The $100,000 Pyramid was renewed for a third season.[34]

Bob Clayton was the series' original announcer and performed these duties until his death in 1979. Alan Kalter and Steve O'Brien shared the primary announcer role until The $50,000 Pyramid ended production in 1981. Substitutes included Fred Foy, John Causier, Dick Heatherton, Scott Vincent, and Ed Jordan.

When the series was revived and production moved to California in 1982, Jack Clark became the announcer and held the position until 1985. Johnny Gilbert became the primary announcer for The $25,000 Pyramid while Charlie O'Donnell took the job for The $100,000 Pyramid when it launched that fall. Both Gilbert and O'Donnell substituted for each other on their respective series; other substitutes included Jerry Bishop, Rod Roddy, Bob Hilton, and Dean Goss. For the 1991 revival, Gilbert and Goss were both featured announcers and frequent panelist Henry Polic II also announced for several weeks.[1]John Cramer announced the 2002–04 version, and JD Roberto announced The Pyramid (2012).

Mike Gargiulo directed through 1981, with Bruce Burmester replacing him until the end of the 1991 revival.[1]

The original theme tune was "Tuning Up" by Ken Aldin. In 1982, it was replaced by an original, similarly-styled composition by Bob Cobert, which was also used on the 1991 revival.[1] Barry Coffing and John Blaylock composed the theme of the 2002–04 version, and Alan Ett composed a cover of Bob Cobert's 1982–91 theme for The Pyramid. Bleeding Fingers Music composed a separate cover of Cobert's theme for the 2016 version.

The Pyramid's gameboards, both in the main game and in the Winners' Circle bonus round, feature six categories arranged in a triangle (referred to as a pyramid), with three categories on the bottom row, two on the middle row, and one on the top. In the main game, a category's position on the board is arbitrary. In the Winners' Circle, categories become progressively more difficult the higher they are on the board.

Two teams compete in the main game, each composed of a celebrity and a regular contestant.

Charles Siebert uses pantomime to describe "lasso" on The $25,000 Pyramid in 1982.

At the beginning of the game, the teams are shown six categories, whose titles gave vague clues to their possible meaning (for instance, "I'm All Wet" might pertain to things found in water). Once the category was chosen, its exact meaning is given (except in certain bonus situations where the meaning was not given and a cash/prize bonus won for completing all the clues). For up to 30 seconds, one contestant conveys to the other clues to a series of items belonging to a category. One point is scored for each item correctly guessed. If a word is passed, the giver could not go back to that word, but if the receiver knows the word later on and guesses it, the team still earns a point (no sound effect was played, in order to avoid a distraction). Since the 2002 Osmond version, a team that passes on any words could return to them if time permitted, but if a word is guessed correctly after it had been passed, it did not count until the word was returned to and correctly guessed then.

When The $10,000 Pyramid launched on CBS, there were eight possible items in a category. This was reduced to seven when the show moved to ABC, and this became the standard used for every subsequent series with two exceptions. When The $20,000 Pyramid briefly switched to its Junior Partner Pyramid format, the time limit was increased to 35 seconds. The Donny Osmond-hosted Pyramid used categories with six items, with 20 seconds given to guess all six. Illegal clues, such as using part of the word in the description, or conveying its essence, results in the word being thrown out (denoted by a rapid "cuckoo" sound).

Originally, the celebrity gave the clues in both the first and third rounds, and the contestant in the second round. This changed to having the contestant decide whether to give or receive in the third round. The teams alternated in the first two rounds, and the team with the lower score played first in the third round. Whoever had the higher score after three rounds advanced to the Winners' Circle. In the 1970s, 1980s and 2016 versions, in the rare event that contestants were mathematically unable to at least tie their opponent before the opponent has had his/her last turn (or even rarer, before that point), the game ends and the remaining categories are left unplayed, unless one of them concealed a bonus.

Originally, if a tie occurred after the rounds were completed, the host gave the team who caused the tie a choice between two letters of the alphabet, and the team then played a round with seven words each beginning with that letter. The opposing team was then given seven words with the other letter. Tiebreaker rounds were played until the tie was broken. The rules were later changed to award the victory to whichever team completed its own seven words faster, if both teams did so. In the Strahan version (2016), if both teams achieve the same score, the team to do so in the shorter time is declared the winner, with another tiebreaker being played if the teams match each other for both score and time.

Throughout the 1970s, a random category during the main game doubled as the "Big 7", meaning that the contestant received a prize if all seven words were guessed correctly. For most of the run, the prize was varying amounts of cash; for the final season of the Bill Cullen-hosted $25,000 Pyramid, the prize was a Chevrolet Chevette. A similar bonus called the "7–11" was introduced in 1982 for the CBS version, hidden behind one category in the first round; if all seven words were guessed, the contestant won an $1,100 bonus. Initially, the contestant could choose to play for either this bonus or $50 per correct guess, but this option was soon dropped in favor of the all-or-nothing approach.

Similarly, a random category in the second round was designated as the "Mystery 7", in which the host did not reveal the topic of the category until after the fact, and correctly guessing all seven words awarded a prize. The "Mystery 7" was initially shown to the teams as one of the six categories, but it was later hidden behind a category name. This is the only bonus used in the 2016 edition, during the second round of each half.

The John Davidson-hosted version had its own similar bonuses: "Gamble for a Grand"/"Gamble for a Trip" offered the choice to reduce the round's time limit to win $1,000 cash or a trip, respectively, and "Double Trouble" offered the team 45 seconds to guess seven two-word responses for a $500 bonus. The Donny Osmond-hosted version had only one bonus: "Super Six", which awarded the contestant a prize if the team managed to get all six words within the 20 seconds.

A contestant, restrained in her seat, gives clues to Kathy Najimy in the Winners' Circle on The $100,000 Pyramid in 2016.

The winning team from the main game plays "The Winners' Circle," in which the goal is to communicate six categories of increasing difficulty within 60 seconds, using only lists of words and phrases that fit them. During the show's original run on CBS from 1973 to 1974, hand gestures of any kind were permitted in this round. However, when the show moved to ABC in 1974, hand gestures became strictly forbidden, and some editions of the show included wrist straps attached to the chair to help contestants abide by this rule. One team member gives clues to the category currently in play, while the other tries to guess it. An illegal clue or hand gesture results in the category being thrown out, thus disqualifying the contestant from winning the grand prize. If all six categories are guessed before time runs out, the contestant wins the top prize; if not, he/she wins money for the guessed categories.[35][36][37] The clue-giver can pass on a category and then return to it after playing through all six, if time allows.

The values for individual categories during standard gameplay are shown in the table below. Category numbering proceeds across the bottom row of the pyramid (left/center/right), then the middle (left/right), and finally the single one at the peak.

On the 1970s daytime version, contestants were allowed to remain on the show until they were defeated or won the Winners' Circle. Under the $10,000 format, a contestant who won the Winners' Circle was allowed to keep all earlier winnings. Under the $20,000 format, the contestant's total was merely augmented to the amount won in the Winners' Circle. The syndicated versions featured no returning champions prior to 1985.

During the 1970s syndicated version, if a contestant won a bonus prize, then went on to win the $25,000 top prize, the value of the bonus (either the additional bonus cash, or the value of the car offered during the final season) was deducted from the champion's total, leaving them with exactly $25,000. This version did not feature returning champions. On all versions from 1982 onward, all main-game bonus winnings remained intact in the event of a $25,000 win.

On the $25,000 and $100,000 versions of the show, the same two contestants competed for both halves of the episode. A contestant who won the first of the two games on the episode played the Winners' Circle for $10,000. A contestant who won both games played the second Winners' Circle for a total of $25,000 (e.g., if a contestant won $10,000 in the first Winners' Circle, the second was worth an additional $15,000 to the contestant). On all versions from 1982 to 1991, a contestant who won both games of an episode became the champion and returned on the next show. If each contestant won one game, the contestant who won the higher amount in the Winners' Circle became champion (winnings from the various main game bonuses were not considered as part of the "score" winnings). If both contestants won equal amounts of money in the Winners' Circle (including $10,000 wins), both returned on the next show.

From 1982 to 1991, contestants were allowed to remain on the show until defeated or a maximum of five episodes. Champions on the CBS version also retired after exceeding the network's winnings limit. This was originally $25,000, but was increased to $50,000 on October 22, 1984 (episode #0542) and to $75,000 on September 29, 1986 (episode #1041). Contestants were allowed to keep a maximum of $25,000 in excess of the limit. Both Pyramid and The Pyramid did not have returning champions.

On Pyramid, the goal was once again to try to win $25,000. However, this required a contestant to get to and win the Winners' Circle twice. If the contestant made a second trip without having won the first, he/she was given another chance at $10,000. If the contestant managed to win both, he/she won the $25,000 and automatically qualified for the $100,000 tournament.

On The Pyramid, each Winners' Circle was played for a base of $10,000. For each category that the contestant and celebrity swept, an additional $5,000 was added to the potential prize, with the maximum prize for a trip to the Winners' Circle being $25,000 for each contestant.[38]

The 2016 ABC format consists of hour-long episodes, each containing two complete pairs of games. The contestant who wins the first game of a pair plays the Winners' Circle for a prize of $50,000. If the same contestant wins both games, he/she plays the second Winners' Circle for an additional $100,000, leading to a potential maximum total of $150,000.[39] Two new contestants compete in each half of an episode; there are no returning champions.

On the 1985–91 version of The $100,000 Pyramid, the three contestants who completed the Winners' Circle in the shortest lengths of time qualified for a $100,000 tournament, which was held every few weeks. During the tournament, all front game bonuses were removed except the $5,000 bonus for breaking a 21–21 tie. The first contestant to complete the Winners' Circle won the $100,000 grand prize, ending the tournament. If neither contestant did so on a particular episode, the one who accumulated more money in the Winners' Circle returned on the next show to compete against the contestant who had not played on that episode. In the event of a tie, a coin toss determined who returned. If one of the three contestants won the $100,000 in the first Winners' Circle of an episode, the other two played against each other in the second half and that winner played for $10,000 in the Winners' Circle.

The British version was called The Pyramid Game and ran intermittently from 1981 to 1990, with Steve Jones as host. Donny Osmond hosted a short-lived 2007 revival, which used the same music package and a similar set as the 2002 American revival hosted by Osmond.

In 2009, Sony created an Australian version of The Junior Partner Pyramid called simply Pyramid. This version was hosted by Shura Taft until 2012, with Graham Matters taking over the following year.

$100,000 Pyramid, a video game based on the show was released in 1987. Developed and published by The Box Office, Inc. It was originally released for Apple II and then ported to the DOS and Commodore 64.[40]

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Bob Stewart (television producer)
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Bob Stewart, born Isidore L. Steinberg, was an American television game show producer. He was active in the TV industry from 1956 until his retirement in 1991, Stewart is known for creating some of the most popular game shows for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. These shows include To Tell the Truth, Password, and The Price Is Right and his biggest success as an independent producer was the Pyramid series, starting with The $10,000 Pyramid in 1973. The Price Is Right, created by Stewart, is the game show to be seen nationally in either first-run network or syndication airings in the US in every decade from the 1950s onward. Stewart was born Isidore Steinberg in Brooklyn, New York to Jacob and Dora Steinberg and he changed his name to Bob Stewart after he lost an opportunity in television believing that it was because he was Jewish. During World War II, Stewart served in the Air Force, after his 1946 discharge, he enrolled in a radio-writing course. Within weeks, his instructor hired him to work at a New York City radio station, Stewarts early broadcasting career included a stint at WNEW in New York City, and then at NBCs flagship TV and radio stations, WNBC-TV and AM, also in New York. He developed the idea into the title of The Auctionaire. Stewart joined Goodson-Todman Productions in 1956, after he bumped into broadcaster Monty Hall on the street, the Price Is Right, using some of the Auctionaire concept, premiered on NBC November 26,1956, with Bill Cullen as host. It lasted seven years on NBC before being bumped in favor of Halls Lets Make a Deal in 1963, after that, Price moved to ABC, where it lasted another two years. CBS To Tell the Truth, emceed by Bud Collyer, hit the air less than one month after the original Price debuted, in December 1956. Stewart said he auditioned the concept to Goodson and his producers by trying to have them guess which one of three men had been in the infantry in World War II and was now managing a grocery store. Five years later, in 1961, Stewart scored again with Password, the show, the first game to pair celebrities and civilian contestants, became the top-rated program on daytime TV and popularized the concept of an end-game bonus round for additional money. Stewart was one of a coterie of Goodson staff producers who came up with ideas for game shows, producers such as Stewart, Frank Wayne, Chester Feldman, and Gil Fates earned Goodsons respect not only for their concepts but for their skill in executing them. By 1964, he considered leaving Goodson-Todman Productions after proposing an idea for a new word association game to Goodson. Stewarts rejected idea would go on to become The $10,000 Pyramid by 1973, shortly after leaving Goodson-Todman, the primetime version of The Price Is Right had been cancelled by ABC, and ratings for the daytime version were falling. Stewarts first production under his own banner was the memory game Eye Guess, which aired on NBC daytime from January 3,1966 to September 26,1969, and featured close friend Bill Cullen, as emcee. Stewarts next entry, the CBS primetime celebrity game show The Face Is Familiar with host Jack Whitaker, another Stewart celebrity game, Personality, aired on NBC from 1967-1969

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Dick Clark
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Richard Augustus Wagstaff Dick Clark Jr. was an American radio and television personality, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1957 to 1987. He also hosted the game show Pyramid and Dick Clarks New Years Rockin Eve, Clark was also well known for his trademark sign-off, For now, Dick Clark — so long. As host of American Bandstand, Clark introduced rock & roll to many Americans, the show gave many new music artists their first exposure to national audiences, including Ike and Tina Turner, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Talking Heads and Simon & Garfunkel. Episodes he hosted were among the first in which blacks and whites performed on the same stage, singer Paul Anka claimed that Bandstand was responsible for creating a youth culture. Due to his youthful appearance and his fame as the host of American Bandstand. In his capacity as a businessman, Clark served as Chief Executive Officer of Dick Clark Productions and he also founded the American Bandstand Diner, a restaurant chain modeled after the Hard Rock Cafe. In 1973, he created and produced the annual American Music Awards show, Clark suffered a stroke in December 2004. With speech ability still impaired, Clark returned to his New Years Rockin Eve show a year later on December 31,2005, subsequently, he appeared at the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2006, and every New Years Rockin Eve show through the 2011–12 show. Clark died on April 18,2012 of an attack at the age of 82 following a medical procedure. Clark was born and raised in Mount Vernon, New York, to Richard Augustus Clark and his only sibling, older brother Bradley, was killed in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. Clark attended A. B. Davis High School in Mount Vernon, at age 10, Clark decided to pursue a career in radio. In pursuit of that goal, he attended Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, graduating in 1951 with a degree in advertising, while at Syracuse, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. In 1945, Clark began his working in the mailroom at WRUN, an AM radio station in Rome, New York. Almost immediately, he was asked to fill in for the vacationing weatherman, while attending Syracuse, Clark worked at WOLF-AM, then a country music station. After graduation, he returned to WRUN for a time where he went by the name Dick Clay. After that, Clark got a job at the television station WKTV in Utica and his first television-hosting job was on Cactus Dick and the Santa Fe Riders, a country-music program. He would later replace Robert Earle as a newscaster, Clark was principal in pro broadcasters operator of 1440 KPRO in Riverside, California, from 1962 to 1982. In the 1960s, he was owner of KGUD AM/FM in Santa Barbara, in 1952, Clark moved to Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where he took a job as a disc jockey at radio station WFIL, adopting the Dick Clark handle

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Bill Cullen
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William Lawrence Francis Cullen was an American radio and television personality whose career spanned five decades. His biggest claim to fame was as a game-show host, over the course of his career, he hosted 23 shows, and earned the nickname Dean of Game Show Hosts. Aside from his duties, he appeared as a panelist/celebrity guest on many other game shows, including regular appearances on Ive Got a Secret. Cullen was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the child of William. His father was a Ford dealer in Pittsburgh and he survived a childhood bout with polio that left him with significant physical limitations for the rest of his life. Cullen was a student at the University of Pittsburgh, but had to withdraw because of financial problems. After he achieved success in radio, he returned to the university. In 1943, Cullen left WWSW to briefly work at rival station KDKA before leaving Pittsburgh a year later to try his luck in New York, a week after arriving in New York, he was hired as a staff announcer at CBS. His first venture into game shows was in 1945, when he was hired as announcer for a quiz called Give And Take. After a brief stint at WNEW in 1951, he hosted a morning show at WRCA radio from 1955 to 1961. His last regular radio job was as one of the hosts of NBC Radios Monitor from 1971–73, Cullen was a pilot for the United States Army Air Corps in World War II. Cullen served in the Civil Air Patrol as an instructor and patrol pilot in his native Pennsylvania during World War II, Cullens first television game show was the TV version of Winner Take All,1183 which premiered on CBS in 1952. In 1953, Cullen had The Bill Cullen Show, a morning variety program on CBS. He hosted Bank on the Stars in 1954, from 1954 to 1955, he hosted NBCs Place the Face, a program in which celebrities identified people from their past,838 he simultaneously hosted CBSs Name That Tune. From 1956 to 1966, he hosted the daytime and primetime versions of The Price Is Right,853 another Goodson-Todman production. He was also a panelist on Ive Got a Secret,518 from 1952 to 1967, and To Tell the Truth,1089 from 1969 to 1978, where he also guest hosted on occasion. After relocating to Southern California, Cullen guest hosted Password Plus for four weeks in April 1980 while original host Allen Ludden was being treated for stomach cancer. Cullen was initially in the running to host the 1972 revival of The Price Is Right for CBS, occasional references to Cullen have been made by current The Price Is Right host Drew Carey

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Donny Osmond
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Donald Clark Donny Osmond is an American singer, actor, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer, in the mid-1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as the Osmonds. Osmond went solo in the early 1970s, covering such hits as Go Away Little Girl, for over thirty-five years, he and younger sister Marie have gained fame as Donny & Marie, partly due to the success of their 1976–79 self-titled variety series, which aired on ABC. The duo also did a 1998–2000 talk show and have been headlining in Las Vegas since 2008, in 1989, Osmond had two big-selling recordings, the first of which, Soldier of Love, was initially credited to a mystery artist by some radio stations. Starting in July 1992, Osmond played Joseph in the Elgin Theatres Toronto production of Joseph, the musical then toured North America until 1998. Creator Andrew Lloyd Webber chose him for the 1999 film version, in 2009, Osmond won the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars. Osmond appeared as a guest judge on Strictly Come Dancing on week 3 of the 12th series, Osmond was born on December 9,1957 in Ogden, Utah, the seventh son of Olive May and George Virl Osmond. He is the brother of Alan, Jay, Jimmy, Merrill, Wayne, Marie, Tom, Alan, Jay, Merrill, Wayne, and Donny were members of the popular singing group The Osmonds. Osmond was raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah along with his siblings, Osmond has traced some of his family ancestry back to Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, his journey was documented in a BBC Wales program, Donny Osmond Coming Home. On the BBCs The One Show, a plaque was unveiled in the town to commemorate the ancestors of Donny Osmond, in his youth, Osmond held a ham radio license, KA7EVD. Andy Williams father, Jay Emerson Williams, saw the Osmond Brothers perform on a Disneyland televised special as a barbershop quartet, in short order, the group was invited to audition for The Andy Williams Show. In 1963, Donny Osmond made his debut on the show at the age of 5 singing You Are My Sunshine, the brothers continued to perform on the show throughout the 1960s along with a visit from their sister Marie. Osmond became a teen idol in the early 1970s as a solo singer, Osmond, Bobby Sherman, and David Cassidy were the biggest Cover Boy pop stars for Tiger Beat magazine in the early 1970s. His first solo hit was a cover of Roy Orbisons 1958 recording of Sweet and Innocent, in the 1980s, Osmond re-invented himself and abandoned the earlier television show image crafted to appeal to young viewers. They succeeded, returning Osmond to the US charts in 1989 with the Billboard Hot 100 No.2 song Soldier of Love, the campaign to market Soldier Of Love received considerable airplay with the singer being presented as a mystery artist before his identity was later revealed. Launching an extensive tour in support of the Eyes Dont Lie record, he enlisted Earth Wind & Fire and Kenny Loggins guitarist Dick Smith along with keyboardist Marc Jackson. Osmond was often reluctant to perform his earliest songs, in particular Go Away Little Girl, now he embraces his initial recording period with fondness, and recognizes that his many fans around the world are always excited and appreciative to hear his earliest chart successes. Osmond was the guest vocalist on Dweezil Zappas star-studded version of the Bee Gees Stayin Alive which appeared on Zappas 1991 album Confessions, the song also included guitar solos from Zakk Wylde, Steve Lukather, Warren DeMartini, Nuno Bettencourt, and Tim Pierce

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Michael Strahan
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Michael Anthony Strahan is a media personality and former American football defensive end who spent his entire 15-year career with the New York Giants of the National Football League. Strahan set a record for the most sacks in a season in 2001, after retiring from the NFL, Strahan became a media personality. He starred in and produced the short-lived Fox sitcom Brothers and appeared as host for Pros vs. Joes alongside fellow Fox football analyst Jay Glazer, on February 1,2014, he was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. As of 2016, he is the host of the ABC game show The $100,000 Pyramid, Strahan was born in Houston, Texas. The youngest of six children, he is the son of Louise Strahan, a coach, and Gene Willie Strahan, a retired Army Major. He is the nephew of retired professional football player Arthur Strahan, Gene was a major in the U. S. Army, and when Michael was 9, the family moved to an army post - BFV - in Mannheim, West Germany. The summer before Strahans senior year of school, his father sent him to live with his uncle Art in Houston so he could attend Westbury High School. Strahan played one season of football, which was enough for him to get an offer from Texas Southern University. He then flew back to Germany for the term, where he graduated from Mannheim Christian. Strahan followed in the footsteps of his uncle Art, who played defensive end at Texas Southern University. Strahan was so dominant he drew double teams, and TSU coaches dubbed Strahan double teaming Strahan rules, by his junior season, Strahan began to turn himself into an NFL prospect. He recorded 62 tackles with a school-record 19 quarterback sacks and 32 tackles totaling 142 yards in losses and he was also selected Division I-AA Defensive Player of the Year by The Poor Mans Guide and Edd Hayes Black College Sports Report. In 1992, he was named First Team All-Southwestern Athletic Conference and he was also named Black College Defensive Player of the Year. As a junior in 1991, Strahan led the SWAC with 14.5 quarterback sacks and his 41.5 career sacks is a Texas Southern record. He played in only 9 games due to injuries, and missed the Giants two playoff games that season, after a few unremarkable seasons, Strahan had a breakout season in 1997, recording 14 sacks. He was voted into his first Pro Bowl and was also named First Team All-Pro by the Associated Press, in 1998, Strahan continued his success, racking up 15 sacks and being voted into his second Pro-Bowl and All-Pro team. Strahan was a member of the 2000 Giants and participated in their run to Super Bowl XXXV. In 2002, Michael Strahan and the Giants negotiated on a new contract and he said the team failed to negotiate after he turned down its first contract proposal

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Bob Clayton
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Bob Clayton was an American television game show announcer and host of several shows. He spent his early television career hosting shows in Miami, Florida before moving to New York in the 1960s and he was suddenly replaced in March 1969 by Ed McMahon, but later returned in September 1969 after viewer outrage and declining audience ratings. Wayne Howell replaced Clayton in the booth, Clayton remained on the show until its 1973 cancellation. Clayton also had a flirtation with the movies when he played the bell captain in Jerry Lewis 1960 film, The Bellboy. After the cancellation of Concentration, Clayton served as announcer on several shows created by Bob Stewart, including the Pyramid series of games, Pyramid began airing the Monday after the final episode of Concentration aired, in the same time slot, though on another network. Other Stewart shows he did included Blankety Blanks, Shoot for the Stars and he was married to Tahitian dancer Mireille of the Mai-Kai Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale. Clayton died of cardiac arrest in 1979, Steve OBrien, a New York disc jockey, took over Pyramid, and he and Alan Kalter announced the show for the remainder of its days in New York. The Encyclopedia Of TV Game Shows, Third Edition by David Schwartz, Steve Ryan, and Fred Wostbrock Published by Checkmark Books, an imprint of Facts on File

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Steve O'Brien
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Steve OBrien is an American disc jockey from New York City. OBrien has worked at stations, including WCBS-FM, WMGQ, WPLJ. He also worked as a anchor for WNYW-TV and WNBC-TV. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, OBrien was also an announcer on the game show The $20,000 Pyramid

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Jack Clark (television personality)
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Jack Leslie Clark was an American television game show host and announcer. He is best known for hosting The Cross-Wits, and as an announcer for Wheel of Fortune. On the latter, he succeeded original announcer Charlie ODonnell and held the role from 1980 until his death in 1988, when Clark was a student at University of California, Berkeley, he began his career as a substitute radio announcer for radio station KROW in Oakland, California. After graduating from UC Berkeley, he moved to New York City, from there, he went on to host 100 Grand and Dealers Choice from 1974 to 1975. Later, Clark hosted The Cross-Wits from 1975 until 1980, where he was noted for his rapport with the celebrities and contestants. Clark later went on to announce for several game shows, including Split Second, Tattletales, Three for the Money, Second Chance. Earlier in 1967, Clark also did commercials for Winston cigarettes in Super King size. Clark also hosted a number of episodes that never passed that stage. Among these were Second Guessers, The $10,000 Sweep, and he was also the announcer on another pilot, Monday Night Quarterback. Clark did many of these pilots on spec as favors to their producers, during his tenure with The Cross-Wits, Clark also hosted Say Powwww. This was a live, interactive game series on Metromedia stations in California, after Wheel of Fortune announcer Charlie ODonnells departure from the show in 1980, Clark was chosen to become the shows regular announcer. During that time, Clark announced the daytime version and the syndicated version. In 1988, Clark was diagnosed with bone cancer and he continued announcing for Wheel of Fortune for as long as he was able to up until the end of the 1987–1988 season. During that time, hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White announced the fee plugs on the syndicated version, when he was away, Charlie ODonnell and Johnny Gilbert began filling in as substitute announcers. Clark died on July 21,1988 at the age of 62, just before production of the 1988–1989 season was to begin, and is interred at Glendales Forest Lawn Memorial Park. He had requested that ODonnell return to take his place, but since ODonnell was not available due to his obligations with Chuck Barris Productions. Kelly announced from mid-1988 to February 1989, when ODonnell returned to the show, jack Clark at the Internet Movie Database

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Johnny Gilbert
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Johnny Gilbert III is an American show business personality who has worked mainly on television game shows. Originally a nightclub singer and entertainer, he has hosted and announced a number of shows from various eras. He has become known primarily for his work as the announcer, Gilbert was born in Newport News, Virginia. He began performing by singing as a boy his hometown Lutheran Church choir, although his parents had never worked in the theatrical profession themselves, his grandmother had been a church singer. While he was still in school, Gilbert decided to take up a professional singing career. Although he never sang any opera independently, he was the regular vocalist with Shelly Harmon and His Orchestra, a few years after graduating from high school, Gilbert heard about an audition as regular vocalist for the Dean Hudson Orchestra which was being conducted in Jacksonville, Florida. Unfortunately, Gilbert was confused about the dates and upon his arrival, however, a local agent in Jacksonville needed a master of ceremonies for the Sky Way club there. Gilbert was asked if he was an emcee, but was unaware of what an emcee was, as in Virginia there were no clubs at the time, while he was trying to figure everything out, the agent told him that he had received his job as emcee. Gilbert resided in Florida for three months, during which time he received training, and learned to walk on stage, speak in front of a public crowd. The Dead End Kids, a group which comprised such young actors as Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gilbert joined the group and played throughout the southwestern portion of the United States for sixteen weeks. When they played in Norfolk, Virginia, Gilbert himself even got special billing, the company toured throughout Western Europe, performing for an audience of servicemen and civilians alike. After resigning from the service and returning to the United States, the show ran for two years, airing first on NBC and then on ABC. His popularity on that show led him to record an album, from there, Gilbert went on to emcee the local game show Words and Music on KTLA-TV in Los Angeles. The show was a 90-minute, live telecast running 5 days a week and it included celebrity guests and a 60-person studio audience. He continued with that show for two years, until he left Dayton on short notice to move to New York, where he became the host of the Metromedia-produced game show Fast Draw. His slot was given to Phil Donahue, who at that time was working as a reporter in WLWD-TVs news department. Following his year-long run on Fast Draw, Gilbert was contacted by Bing Crosby Productions to host the game show Beat the Odds, afterward, he went on to host the local weekday program Dialing for Dollars for two and one-half years. In 1963, Gilbert was selected by Mark Goodson to replace Don Pardo as the announcer and he hosted the show for the absent Bill Cullen on June 19,1964

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Sony Pictures Television
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Sony Pictures Television is an American television production and distribution studio. Based in Culver City, California, it is a division of Sony Pictures, with Children, Designing Women, Seinfeld, The King of Queens, Community, Rules of Engagement, Breaking Bad and The Blacklist. The company also produces Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, in 2009, SPT collaborated with Jeff Arnold and Dr. Additional co-founders in Sharecare include Harpo Productions, Discovery Communications, as of 2015, its the worlds largest television production and distribution company measured by library and revenue. SPTs history goes back to 1947, when Pioneer Telefilms was founded by Ralph Cohn, whose father Jack, the present name was given to reflect the Sony brand on September 16,2002. On November 24,2004, Sony Pictures Television International formed a joint venture called Huaso with Hua Long Film Digital Production Co. Ltd. of the China Film Group in Beijing. From 2005 to 2006, SPT was the distributor of MGMs TV and film library, in 2006, SPT joined forces with Program Partners to handle advertising sales and distribution rights to foreign television series in the U. S. mostly shows produced in Canada. The same year, SPT signed Embassy Row a three-year deal for new shows, game show revivals. In summer 2007, SPT introduced The Minisode Network, a channel for MySpace airing shows from the 1960s to early 2000s from four to five minutes. In winter 2007, The Minisode Network was also added to a few more sites like AOL TV, YouTube, and its sister site Crackle. On March 27,2008, SPT International acquired a minority stake in the new production company Gogglebox Entertainment, on June 4,2008, SPT bought Hilversum, Netherlands-based production company 2waytraffic, international holders of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. On January 14,2009, SPT acquired Embassy Row, a television, fourteen days later, SPTI acquired a 50% stake in Colombian independent TV production company Teleset. Three months later on April 1, Sony Pictures Entertainment consolidated its US, Sony Pictures Television International now operates in-name-only. On September 25,2011, Andrea Wong was tapped to head the international television production division of Sony Pictures Television to oversee all international businesses for the studio. On January 19,2012, SPT acquired Dolphin Broadcast Services Ltd. SPT also took a majority stake in Dolphins advertising sales business. On March 1,2012, SPT acquired a majority stake in UK independent production company Silver River Productions, on May 31, SPT launched Sony Movie Channel and AXN in Canada in partnership with Hollywood Suite. Two of Hollywood Suites networks, Hollywood Festival re-launched as Sony Movie Channel, on August 23,2012, SPT acquired a majority stake in Left Bank Pictures, a UK production company founded by Andy Harries, Francis Hopkinson, and Marigo Kehoe. On August 22,2013, Sony Pictures Television acquired a majority stake in Simon Andraes new production company Scarlet Media, however, two months later, Andrae dropped his plans for Scarlet and was tapped to become executive vice-president of alternative entertainment for Fox

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Embassy Row (production company)
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Embassy Row is an American television, global-based format, and digital production company based in New York City, owned by Sony Pictures Television. Embassy Row was founded on December 12,2000 by British television producer Michael Davies as Diplomatic, with the help of ABC, Michael Davies was originally a senior vice president for Buena Vista Productions, who later joined ABC in February 1998 as executive vice president. In 2004, Diplomatic joined forces with UKs Monkey Kingdom for a 5-year deal until 2009 and their first production with Monkey was Studio 7, a show aired on the WB. On May 12,2005, Davies teamed up with entertainment marketer Tera Hanks, however, on December 5, Hanks and Moore departed. On January 2,2006, the signed a 3-year deal with Sony Pictures Television and days later on January 13, GSN inked a deal with ER. On January 14,2009, after a three years, Embassy Row was acquired by SPT. On April 7,2014, former IFC head of original programming, Debbie DeMontreux joined Embassy Row as senior vice-president of developing & programming

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Viacom Enterprises
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Viacom Inc. was an American media conglomerate. They also distributed syndicated shows which originated during the 1980s, with the biggest examples being The Cosby Show, on December 31,2005, the original incarnation of Viacom split into two new companies, resulting in the creation of CBS Corporation and the current incarnation of Viacom. The original Viacom began as CBS Films, Inc. the television division of CBS established in 1952. The division was spun off and renamed Viacom in 1970, amid new FCC rules forbidding television networks from owning syndication companies. Viacoms first non-programming acquisition came in 1978 when the company purchased the Sonderling Broadcasting chain, giving it radio stations in New York City, Washington, houston, and San Francisco, and one television station, WAST in Albany, New York. Later that year, Viacom added WHNB-TV in New Britain, Connecticut, in 1985, Viacom bought Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, which owned MTV and Nickelodeon, renaming the company MTV Networks. Viacom also received Warner-Amexs share of Viacom/WASEC joint venture Showtime Networks, Inc and this led to Viacom becoming a mass media company rather than simply a distribution company. In 1986, movie theater owner National Amusements bought controlling interest in Viacom, the acquisition of Paramount Communications in July 1994 made Viacom one of the worlds largest entertainment companies. In 1999, Viacom made its biggest acquisition to date by announcing plans to merge with its former parent CBS Corporation. The merger was approved in 2000, bringing cable channels TNN and Country Music Television under Viacoms wing, as well as CBSs production units and TV syndicaters Eyemark Entertainment and King World. CBSs production unit and King World operated under their own names, however, TNN, in 2001, Viacom completed its purchase of Black Entertainment Television. As with TNN/Spike TV and CMT, it was integrated into MTV Networks. As a result, BET was eventually de-integrated from MTV Networks, in 2002, Viacom bought independently run music channel TMF, which at the time was broadcasting in Belgium and the Netherlands. In June 2004, Viacom bought VIVA Media AG, the German equivalent to MTV, the same month, plans were announced to dispose of Viacoms interest in Blockbuster later that year by means of an exchange offer. Also in 2002, Viacom acquired the shares of Infinity Broadcasting radio chain. And in April 2003, Viacom acquired the ownership shares of Comedy Central from Time Warner. From the mid-1980s until 1995, Viacom operated several cable television systems generally located in the Dayton, San Francisco, several of these were in former CBS antenna television areas. The systems were known as Viacom Cablevision until the early 1990s, by 1995, Viacom Cable had about 1.1 million subscribers

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20th Century Fox Television
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Twentieth Century Fox Television is the television production subsidiary of 20th Century Fox, and a production arm of the Fox Television Group. 20th Television is the arm of 20th Century Fox Television. 20th Century Fox Television was formed in 1949 as other studios were branching out into production as well. At that time, the company was known as TCF Television Productions, since 1986, 20th Century Fox Television has served as the Fox television networks official production arm, producing the bulk of television series airing on the television network. TCFTV produced the first two series aired on Foxs sister network, MyNetworkTV, the telenovelas Desire and Fashion House. In 1989, 20th Century Fox Televisions functions were taken over by Twentieth Television Corporation, both companies were subsidiaries of News Corporation unit Fox Inc. the move was made to separate the television productions from the movie studio in order to increase the latters output. In 1998, MTM folded into 20th Century Fox Television, notable shows produced by 20th Century Fox Television include, M*A*S*H, Glee, How I Met Your Mother, Bones, Empire, Family Guy,24, Modern Family, This Is Us, American Dad. Sundance Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever. S. A

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Carolco Pictures
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The company was founded through the partnership of two film investors, Mario Kassar and Andrew Vajna. The two were hailed by Newsweek as some of the most successful independent producers, by the age of 25, Vajna went from wig-maker to the owner of two Hong Kong theaters. Then, Vajna ventured into the production and distribution of feature films, One of Vajnas early productions was a 1973 martial-arts film entitled The Deadly China Doll which made $3.7 million worldwide from a $100,000 budget. Vajna was already a film sales agent in the Middle East by the time he turned 18 and their goal was to focus on film sales, eventually it went into financing low-budget films. Their earliest films were produced by American International Pictures and ITC Entertainment with Carolcos financial support, the name Carolco was purchased from a defunct company based in Panama, and according to Kassar, it has no meaning. Carolcos first major success was First Blood, an adaptation of David Morrells novel, the risk paid off after First Blood made $120 million worldwide, and placed Carolco among the major players in Hollywood. The sequel Rambo, First Blood Part II, was timed for the 10th anniversary of the United States bailout from Vietnam, that event garnered publicity for the new film, which also became a hit. Also in 1985, Carolco began a deal with then-fledgling studio TriStar Pictures with the film Rambo. TriStar released the majority of Carolcos films from that point on in the U. S. Carolco entered home video distribution as well. Independent video distributor International Video Entertainment was going through difficulties and was near bankruptcy. In 1986, Carolco purchased IVE in the hopes of turning the company around, the deal was finalized a year later. IVE merged with another distributor, Lieberman, and became LIVE Entertainment in 1988, on August 28,1987, Carolco acquired television syndicator Orbis Communications for $15.4 million and initiated television production and distribution. They also purchased the former De Laurentiis Entertainment Group production facility in Wilmington, North Carolina, jose Menendez was a member of the Board of Directors of Carolco until August 1989, when he and his wife were murdered by their sons Lyle and Erik Menendez. Vajna sold his share of Carolco in 1989 due to increasing differences between Kassar over the direction of the company and that November, Vajna formed Cinergi Pictures, with The Walt Disney Company as a distribution partner. In 1990, Carolco acquired the rights to the Terminator franchise from Hemdale Film Corporation, the company re-hired Terminator director James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger to star in a multi-million-dollar budgeted sequel, Terminator 2, Judgment Day. It was the film of the year and the most successful film in Carolcos history. Halfway through the year, Carolco entered into a joint venture with New Line Cinema to start Seven Arts, Carolco struggled for some years to secure the rights to Spider-Man, a property that Cameron was keen to produce as a film. Plans fell through, although it would eventually be made as a Sam Raimi film for Columbia Pictures, toward the end of shooting True Lies, Variety carried the announcement that Carolco had received a completed screenplay from Cameron

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Columbia TriStar Television
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Columbia TriStar Television was an American television studio that was active from 1994 to 2002. After the merger, Columbia Pictures Television Distribution was renamed as Columbia TriStar Television Distribution, expanding its television library in 1994, SPE acquired Stewart Television. Its global subsidiary, Columbia TriStar International Television, distributed Sonys programs across the globe and it was created in 1992 by merging Columbia Pictures International Television with TriStar Television. This was also the launch of the Columbia TriStar Television Group a year later, in 1996, CTT launched their own animation division, Columbia TriStar Childrens Television. The name was changed in 1997 to Adelaide Productions, within dismantling of Columbia Pictures Television in 2001 and TriStar Television in 1999, these studios were folded into Columbia TriStar Television. In 1998, it made a partnership with Global Maritime Group to create the company called Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Co, medien KG used for copyright purposes. In 1999, they went back to the old way and ELP, on October 25,2001, CTT and CTTD merged to form Columbia TriStar Domestic Television. Some shows continued using the CTDT name, many stopped using it in November 2002, while Hollywood Squares continued using it until early 2003

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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time

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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate

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Game Show Network
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Game Show Network is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that is owned as a joint venture between Sony Pictures Television and AT&T Entertainment Group. The channels programming is dedicated to game shows, including reruns of classic game shows, along with new, first-run original. For a period in the mid-2000s, Game Show Network began branching out into games in general, including reality competition series, as of February 2015, approximately 79,471,000 American households receive GSN. On May 7,1992, Sony Pictures Entertainment joined forces with the United Video Satellite Group to launch Game Show Channel, the announcement of the channel was made by SPE president Mel Harris. Sony Pictures holdings included those by Merv Griffin Enterprises and Barris Industries, SPE was in competition with The Family Channel in launching a game show-oriented channel when The Family Channel announced the launch of its own service called Game Channel. Family Feud and To Tell the Truth, upon the deal, Sony said it would sell an equity stake in the network to Mark Goodson Productions, including the production of new original series by Jonathan Goodson Productions. Both deals were completed on December 7,1992, eleven days before Mark Goodsons death, on June 6,1994, Mark Goodson Productions pulled out of the venture. Game Show Network launched at 7,00 p. m. ET on December 1,1994, the first aired game show was Whats My Line. From 1994 until about 1997, the network aired classic pre-1972 game shows as well as game shows made after 1972, the network aired game shows in a 24-hour cycle, and also used live interstitials as wraparound programming. In its first few months, GSNs commercials consisted of public announcements, promotions for its programming. By 1995, when the network began to expand, the network began accepting conventional advertising as it gained new sponsorships and this period lasted until April 18,1998. Shows from Chuck Barris also aired during this time, including The Newlywed Game, The Dating Game, The Gong Show, Treasure Hunt, Game Show Network also aired a childrens game show block at this time, highlighted by Joker. Jep. and Wheel 2000 – the respective adaptations of The Jokers Wild, Jeopardy. on April 18,1998, Game Show Network bought back the rights to the Goodson-Todman library. In late 1998, GSN eliminated all of its programming, replacing them with in-show advertisements like Win TV. In 1999, the network began a slate of programming, including Inquizition, All New 3s a Crowd. The channel also launched original shows such as Extreme Gong, in 2000, the network faced another setback when GSN lost the rights to broadcast The Price Is Right, with the last episode airing on April 3 of that year. In 2001, a change in both leadership and programming at the network took place. Liberty Media acquired a 50% stake in the network and changed its leadership, president Michael Fleming and vice president Jake Tauber were both fired and former Fox Family Channel president Rich Cronin were hired to head the network

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Game show
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Alternatively, a gameshow can be a demonstrative program about a game. In the former, contestants may be invited from a pool of public applicants, on some shows, contestants compete against other players or another team, while other shows involve contestants playing alone for a reward or a high score. Game shows often reward players with prizes such as cash, trips and goods and services provided by the shows sponsor prize suppliers, One of the reasons that television broadcasters make game shows is because they are substantially less costly than producing scripted drama shows. Some TV game shows fall under the category of reality television, Television game shows descended from similar programs on radio. The very first television show, Spelling Bee, was broadcast in 1938. Truth or Consequences was the first game show to air on commercially licensed television and its first episode aired in 1941 as an experimental broadcast. Over the course of the 1950s, as began to pervade the popular culture. Daytime game shows would be played for lower stakes to target stay-at-home housewives, higher-stakes programs would air in primetime. During the late 1950s, high-stakes games such as Twenty One, however, the rise of quiz shows proved to be short-lived. In 1959, many of the higher stakes game shows were discovered to be rigged, an early variant of the game show, the panel game, survived the quiz show scandals. On shows like Whats My Line, ive Got A Secret and To Tell The Truth, panels of celebrities would interview a guest in an effort to determine some fact about them, in others, celebrities would answer questions. Panel games had success in primetime until the late 1960s, when they were dropped from television because of their perceived “low budget” nature. Panel games made a comeback in American daytime television in the 1970s through comedy-driven shows such as Match Game, mock the Week, QI and 8 Out of 10 Cats, all of which put a heavy emphasis on comedy, leaving the points as mere formalities. The focus on quick-witted comedians has resulted in ratings, which. Game shows remained a fixture of US daytime television through the 1960s after the quiz show scandals, lower-stakes games made a slight comeback in daytime in the early 1960s, examples include Jeopardy. Which began in 1964 and the version of The Match Game first aired in 1962. Lets Make a Deal began in 1963 and the 1960s also marked the debut of Hollywood Squares, Password, The Dating Game, though CBS gave up on daytime game shows in 1968, the other networks did not follow suit. Color television was introduced to the game genre in the late 1960s on all three networks

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Jeopardy!
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Jeopardy. is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show features a competition in which contestants are presented with general knowledge clues in the form of answers. The original daytime version debuted on NBC on March 30,1964, a weekly nighttime syndicated edition aired from September 1974 to September 1975, and a revival, The All-New Jeopardy. Ran on NBC from October 1978 to March 1979, the current version, a daily syndicated show produced by Sony Pictures Television, premiered on September 10,1984, and is still airing, making it by far the programs most successful incarnation. Both NBC versions and the syndicated version were hosted by Art Fleming. Don Pardo served as announcer until 1975, and John Harlan announced for the 1978–1979 show, since its inception, the daily syndicated version has featured Alex Trebek as host and Johnny Gilbert as announcer. With over 7,000 episodes aired, the syndicated version of Jeopardy. has won a record 33 Daytime Emmy Awards and is the only post-1960 game show to be honored with the Peabody Award. In 2013, the program was ranked No.45 on TV Guides list of the 60 greatest shows in American television history, Jeopardy. has also gained a worldwide following with regional adaptations in many other countries. The daily syndicated series 33rd season premiered on September 12,2016, three contestants each take their place behind a lectern, with the returning champion occupying the leftmost lectern. The contestants compete in a quiz game comprising three rounds, Jeopardy, the material for the questions covers a wide variety of topics, including history and current events, the sciences, the arts, popular culture, literature, and languages. Category titles often feature puns, wordplay, or shared themes, rounds each feature six categories, each of which contains five clues, which are ostensibly valued by difficulty. The dollar values of the clues increased over time, Series, clue values in the first round ranged from $10 to $50. They ranged from $25 to $125, the current series first round originally ranged from $100 to $500, and were doubled to $200 to $1,000 on November 26,2001. Specials, clues were valued in points rather than in dollars, round begins when the returning champion selects a clue, which may be from any position on the game board. The clue is revealed and read aloud by the host, after which any contestant may ring-in using a hand-held signaling device, the first contestant to ring-in successfully is prompted to provide a response to the clue, phrased in the form of a question. If the contestant responds correctly, the dollar value is added to the contestants score. An incorrect response, or a failure to respond within five seconds, deducts the clues value from the score and allows the other contestants the opportunity to ring-in. If no contestant responds correctly or does not know, the host gives the correct response, from the premiere of the original Jeopardy

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Watergate scandal
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When the conspiracy was discovered and investigated by the U. S. Congress, the Nixon administrations resistance to its probes led to a constitutional crisis. The term Watergate, by metonymy, has come to encompass an array of clandestine and those activities included such dirty tricks as bugging the offices of political opponents and people of whom Nixon or his officials were suspicious. The scandal also resulted in the indictment of 69 people, with trials or pleas resulting in 48 being found guilty, the affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the DNC headquarters at the Watergate complex on Saturday, June 17,1972. In July 1973, evidence mounted against the Presidents staff, including testimony provided by staff members in an investigation conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee. The investigation revealed that President Nixon had a system in his offices. After a protracted series of court battles, the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the president was obliged to release the tapes to government investigators. The tapes revealed that Nixon had attempted to cover up activities that took place after the break-in, facing virtually certain impeachment in the House of Representatives and equally certain conviction by the Senate, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9,1974. On September 8,1974, his successor, Gerald Ford, the name Watergate and the suffix -gate have since become synonymous with political and non-political scandals in the United States. According to Dean, this marked the scene of the worst political scandal of the twentieth century. Mitchell viewed the plan as unrealistic, Liddy was nominally in charge of the operation, but has since insisted that he was duped by Dean and at least two of his subordinates. These included former CIA officers E. Howard Hunt and James McCord, in May, McCord assigned former FBI agent Alfred C. Baldwin III to carry out the wiretapping and monitor the telephone conversations afterward. McCord testified that he selected Baldwins name from a registry published by the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI to work for the Committee to Re-elect the President, Baldwin first served as bodyguard to Martha Mitchell, the wife of John Mitchell, who was living in Washington. Baldwin accompanied Martha Mitchell to Chicago, Martha did not like Baldwin and described him as the gauchest character Ive ever met. The Committee replaced Baldwin with another security man, the room 419 was booked in the name of McCord’s company. At behest of G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, McCord and his team of burglars prepared for their first Watergate break-in, two phones inside the offices of the DNC headquarters were said to have been wiretapped. The FBI found no evidence that OBriens phone was bugged, however, it was determined that an effective listening device had been installed in Olivers phone. Despite the success in installing the devices, the Committee agents soon determined that they needed to be repaired. They planned a burglary in order to take care of this

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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown

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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas

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CBS Television City
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CBS Television City, alternatively Television City, is a television studio complex located in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles at 7800 Beverly Boulevard, at the corner of North Fairfax Avenue. Since 1961, it has served as the control facility for CBSs west coast television network operations, prior to that. The companys West Coast radio production center is located more than a mile away to the south, since its inauguration in 1952, numerous TV shows have been broadcast live or taped at Television City, including many shows not broadcast on CBS. Many films have also produced in part at Television City, such as the 1996 feature That Thing You Do. starring Tom Hanks. During the opening credits of many of the shows taped here, the complex currently houses a total of eight separate studios. Backstage tours infrequently take place, with the guests being escorted by a CBS page, CBS Television City opened on November 16,1952. It was built on the site of a football field and race track. Before the stadium, it was an oil field, Gilmore Stadium was part of a sports/entertainment complex that included Gilmore Field and the Pan Pacific Auditorium. By the late 1930s, the Gilmore company had both the football stadium and the baseball park. Gilmore sold the stadium to CBS in 1950, and that years Turkey Night Grand Prix midget race was the last race run on its track, two years later, CBS built Television City on the site. After the Hollywood Stars transferred out of the city in 1958, the ballpark was razed, the stark modern architecture at Television City consists of black and white planes meeting at razor-sharp corners, with accents of dazzling red, the work of Pereira & Luckman of Los Angeles. The studio facility was built to handle the production needs for the network. The buildings black and white color scheme was used to identify areas where it was designed to be expanded. Black walls and glass walls indicated temporary structure that could be removed during expansion, later, another renovation further added two more studios in what had been rehearsal halls in the original building. The original plans for Television City called for 24 soundstages, before CBS executives deciding to settle with just the initial four, Studio 43 was equipped with RCA TK-40A color cameras in 1954, with cables allowing any of the original four studios to use those cameras. In 1956, Studio 41 was equipped with RCA TK-41s, however, CBS color broadcasts decreased in frequency until the following decade, when the 1964 production of Rodgers and Hammersteins Cinderella was recorded. CBS programs were, in general, in black-and-white until Norelco PC-60s were installed starting in 1964, Studio 33 is the current home of the long-running CBS game show The Price Is Right and the HBO late-night series Real Time with Bill Maher. On April 9,1998, on the 5000th episode of The Price Is Right, CBS named Studio 33 as the Bob Barker Studio in honor of the longtime host

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Ed Sullivan Theater
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The Ed Sullivan Theater, located at 1697–1699 Broadway between West 53rd and West 54th, in the Theater District in Manhattan, is a venerable radio and television studio in New York City. The theater has been used as a venue for live and taped CBS broadcasts since 1936 and it is historically known as the home of The Ed Sullivan Show and the site of The Beatles US debut performance. It has also housed David Lettermans tenure of CBS Late Show from 1993 to 2015, the theatre currently houses The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the second incarnation of the Late Show franchise. It is on the National Register of Historic Places, and the interior has been designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, the 13-story, brown brick and terra cotta office building with a ground-floor theater was designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp. It was built by Arthur Hammerstein between 1925 and 1927, and was named Hammersteins Theatre after his father, Oscar Hammerstein I, the original neo-Gothic interior contained pointed-arch stained-glass windows with scenes from the elder Hammersteins operas. Its first production was the three-hour musical Golden Dawn, the male lead of which was Cary Grant, then still using his birth name. Arthur Hammerstein went bankrupt in 1931, and lost ownership of the building and it later went by the name Manhattan Theatre, Billy Roses Music Hall, and the Manhattan once again. In the 1930s, it became a nightclub, after CBS obtained a long-term lease on the property, the radio network began broadcasting from there in 1936, moving in broadcast facilities it had leased at NBC Studios in Radio City. The debut broadcast was the Major Bowes Amateur Hour, the theater had various names during the networks tenancy, including Radio Theater #3 and the CBS Radio Playhouse. It was converted for television in 1950, when it became CBS-TV Studio 50, in the early and mid-Fifties, the theater played host to many of the live telecasts of The Jackie Gleason Show. The theater was renamed for Sullivan at the end of his 20th Anniversary Celebration telecast on December 10,1967. In the 1960s, Studio 50 was one of CBS busiest stages, not only for Sullivans program but also for The Merv Griffin Show, as well as several game shows. In 1965, Studio 50 was converted to color, and the first color episode of The Ed Sullivan Show originated from the theater on October 31,1965, the first episode of regular color telecasts of Whats My Line. was broadcast live on September 11,1966. Line and Truth remained at Studio 50 even after they moved from CBS to first-run syndication in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Ed Sullivan Theater was also the first home for The $10,000 Pyramid, with its huge end-game board set at the rear of the stage, in 1973. Other short-lived game shows produced at the Ed included Musical Chairs with singer Adam Wade, Shoot For The Stars with Geoff Edwards, the CBS lease on the building expired in 1981 and it became a Reeves Entertainment teletape facility. As such it hosted the sitcom Kate & Allie, which ran from 1984 to 1989, in 1990, David Niles/1125 Productions signed onto the lease, with the theater to house his HDTV studio and new Broadway show Dreamtime. On October 17,1992, an NBC special celebrating Phil Donahues 25 years on television taped in the theater, the following month, NBC News used the theater for its November 1992 election night coverage

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The Price Is Right (U.S. game show)
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The Price Is Right is an American television game show created by Bob Stewart, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. The show revolves around contestants competing to identify accurate pricing of merchandise to win cash, Contestants are selected from the studio audience when the announcer proclaims the shows famous catchphrase, Come on down. The program premiered on September 4,1972 on CBS, Bob Barker was the series longest-running host from its 1972 debut until his retirement in June 2007, when Drew Carey took over. Barker was accompanied by a series of announcers, beginning with Johnny Olson, followed by Rod Roddy, in April 2011, George Gray became the announcer. The show has used models, most notably Anitra Ford, Janice Pennington, Dian Parkinson, Holly Hallstrom. While retaining some elements of the version of the show. The Price Is Right has aired over 8,000 episodes since its debut and is one of the network series in United States television history. In a 2007 article, TV Guide named The Price Is Right the greatest game show of all time, the shows 45th season premiered on September 19,2016. At the beginning of the show, four contestants are called from the audience by the announcer to take a spot on the front row behind bidding podiums and this area is known as Contestants Row. The announcer shouts Come on down, after calling each selected contestants name, a phrase which has become a trademark of the show. The four contestants in Contestants Row compete in a round to determine which contestant will play the next pricing game. A prize is shown and each contestant gives a single bid for the item, in the first One-Bid game of each episode, bidding begins with the contestant on the viewers left-to-right. In subsequent One-Bid rounds, the order of bidding moves from the viewers left-to-right. Contestants are instructed to bid in whole dollars since the price of the item is rounded to the nearest dollar. If a contestant thinks the others have overbid, he or she bids $1 on the item, the contestant whose bid is closest to the actual retail price of the prize without going over wins that prize and gets to play the subsequent pricing game. If all four contestants overbid, short buzzer tones sound, the lowest bid is announced, the host then instructs the contestants to re-bid below the lowest previous bid. If a contestant bids the actual retail price, a bell rings, from the introduction of the bonus in 1977 until 1998, the perfect bid bonus was $100, it was permanently increased to the current $500 in 1998. On The Price Is Right $1,000,000 Spectacular, after each pricing game, another contestant is called to come on down to fill the spot of the contestant that won the previous round

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Bob Barker
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Robert William Bob Barker is an American former television game show host. Born in Darrington, Washington to modest circumstances, Barker enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II, Barker worked part-time in radio while he attended college. In 1950, Barker moved to California in order to pursue a career in broadcasting and he was given his own radio show, The Bob Barker Show, which ran for the next six years. Barker began his show career in 1956, hosting Truth or Consequences. From there, he hosted various shows as well as the Miss Universe. Eventually, he began hosting The Price Is Right in 1972, in 2007, Barker retired from hosting The Price Is Right after celebrating his 50-year career on television. Barker was born in Darrington, Washington, and spent most of his youth on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the U. S. Indian Census Rolls, 1885–1940, list Barker as an official member of the Sioux tribe. His mother, Matilda Valandra, was a teacher, his father. While in Washington, his father fell from a tower and sustained an injury resulted in his death in 1929. Barker has a half-brother, Kent Valandra, from Matildas subsequent remarriage, in 1931, the family moved to Springfield, Missouri, where Barker graduated from Central High School in 1941. Barker attended Drury College in Springfield, on a basketball scholarship and he was a member of the Epsilon Beta Chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity at Drury. On the outbreak of World War II, Barker served in the United States Navy as a fighter pilot, however, the war ended before he was assigned to a seagoing squadron. After the war, he returned to Drury to finish his education, while attending college in Drury, Barker worked his first media job, at KTTS-FM Radio, in Springfield. He left Springfield and the moved to Lake Worth, Florida. In 1950, Barker moved to California in order to pursue a career in broadcasting and he was given his own radio show, The Bob Barker Show, which ran for the next six years from Burbank. He was hosting a radio show on KNX in Los Angeles when game show producer Ralph Edwards happened to be listening and liked Barkers voice. Barker started hosting Truth or Consequences on December 31,1956, the idea was to mix the original quiz element of game shows with wacky stunts. On the show, people had to answer a question correctly before Beulah the Buzzer was sounded

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Family Feud
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Family Feud is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson where two families compete to name the most popular responses to survey questions in order to win cash and prizes. It is considered a spin-off of Match Game, whose panel included original host Richard Dawson, the program premiered on ABC on July 12,1976, and ran as part of its daytime schedule until June 14,1985. The program was re-launched by CBS on July 4,1988, three separate editions for syndication were also produced. The first aired from September 19,1977 to September 6,1985, the second aired from September 19,1988 to September 8,1995. The current syndicated series premiered on September 20,1999, the ABC network version of the show and the first syndicated series were hosted by Richard Dawson. Ray Combs hosted the CBS series and the first six seasons of the syndicated version. The 1999 syndicated series has been hosted by Louie Anderson, Richard Karn, John OHurley, announcers for the series have included Gene Wood, Burton Richardson, Joey Fatone, and Rubin Ervin. The program has spawned multiple regional adaptations in over 50 international markets outside the United States, within a year of its debut, the original version became the number one game show in daytime television, however, as viewing habits changed, the ratings declined. Harveys takeover in 2010 increased Nielsen ratings significantly and eventually placed the program among the top five most popular syndicated shows in the country. In 2013, TV Guide ranked Family Feud third in its list of the 60 greatest game shows of all time, two family teams of five contestants each compete to win cash and prizes. The original version of the show began with the families being introduced, seated opposite each other as if posing for family portraits, each round begins with a face-off question that serves as a toss-up between two opposing contestants. The host asks a question that was previously posed to a group of 100 people. A certain number of answers are concealed on the board, ranked by popularity of the surveys responses, only answers that receive two or more responses can appear on the board. The first contestant to buzz-in gives an answer, if it is the most popular, otherwise, the opponent responds and the family member providing the higher-ranked answer wins. Ties are broken in favor of the contestant who buzzes-in first, if neither contestants answer is on the board, the other eight contestants have a chance to respond, one at a time from alternating sides, until an answer is found. The family that wins the face-off may choose to play the question or pass control to their opponents, the family with control of the question then tries to win the round by guessing all of the remaining concealed answers, with each member giving one answer in sequence. Giving an answer not on the board, or failing to respond within the allotted time, answers are worth one point for every person in the 100-member survey who gave them. The winning family in each round scores the points for all revealed answers to that question, including those given during the face-off

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Ray Combs
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Raymond Neil Ray Combs, Jr. was an American comedian, actor, and game show host. Combs began his career as a stand-up comedian in the 1980s. His popularity on the circuit led to him being signed as the host of the revival of the game show Family Feud. The show aired on CBS and was in syndication until 1994, from 1995 to 1996, Combs hosted another game show, Family Challenge. Combs committed suicide by hanging at Glendale Adventist Medical Center where he was being held for observation in June 1996, Combs was born in Hamilton, Ohio. He graduated in 1974 from Garfield High School, where he was an actor, senior class president and he declined a nomination to the United States Military Academy to serve as a Mormon missionary for two years in Arizona. Combs began performing comedy at Cincinnatis Red Dog Saloon, where he developed his best-known shtick of audience sing-alongs of sitcom theme songs, in 1979, Combs sent a letter to David Letterman asking for advice, Letterman encouraged him to continue in comedy. In 1982, convinced that he was better than others he saw appear on The Tonight Show, Combs quit his job as an Indianapolis furniture salesman and moved with his family to Los Angeles. He did well in a competition more than 200 other young comedians. He became so popular that other sitcoms changed their production schedules just so they could have him warm up their audiences, johnny Carson heard the audiences laughter and then invited Combs to perform on The Tonight Show in October 1986, the audience gave him a standing ovation. In 1987, he appeared as a celebrity panelist on the John Davidson version of Hollywood Squares and had a role in the comedy film Overboard starring Kurt Russell. In 1985, he appeared on an episode of The Facts of Life as a background character, around this time he also guest starred on an episode of The Golden Girls. In 1988, game show producers Mark Goodson and Howard Felsher gave Combs a seven-year contract to host a new version of Family Feud, the program premiered on July 4,1988 on CBSs daytime lineup, and a syndicated version was launched two months later, on September 19. On June 29,1992, CBS expanded the show from thirty minutes to one hour. A new Bullseye round was added and the show was re-titled Family Feud Challenge, on September 14,1992, the Bullseye round was integrated into the syndicated run, which remained thirty minutes in length but was renamed as The New Family Feud. Combs was one of the most seen emcees on television during the 1992–93 season, with an hour, midway through the 1992–93 season, ratings for the show began to plummet. CBS canceled the daytime version in early 1993 and ended it on March 26 as many CBS affiliates had dropped the show entirely by that time, the syndicated version was also in danger of cancellation. By all accounts, Combs was hurt by his dismissal from the show and his final episode of Family Feud was taped sometime in February 1994 and aired in first-run syndication on May 27 of that year

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Sony Pictures Studios
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The facility is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment and houses the divisions film studios, Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, and Screen Gems. The complex was the studios of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1924 to 1986. In addition to films shot at the facility, several shows have been broadcast live or taped there. The lot, which is open to the public for daily studio tours, while director Thomas H. Ince was filming at Ballona Creek in 1915, Harry Culver, the founding father of Culver City, persuaded Ince to move his studio Inceville from Pacific Palisades to Culver City. During that time, Ince co-founded Triangle Film Corporation and the Triangle Studios was opened in the form of a Greek colonnade – the entrance to the studios, the colonnade still stands fronting Washington Boulevard and is a Culver City historical landmark. Ince added a few stages and an Administration Building before selling out to his partners D. W. Griffith, Ince relocated down the street and built the Culver Studios at that location. In 1918, Triangle Studios was sold to film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Goldwyn also added a few sound stages before selling his shares in Goldwyn Studios. But it was the Technicolor musicals, including The Wizard of Oz, Singin in the Rain, in addition to the main production building, MGM added two large backlot facilities – Lot 2 located opposite the main studio across Overland Avenue. Lot 3 entered the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Overland Avenue and was MGM’s largest backlot, the administration building was inaugurated in 1938 and was named for Thalberg. However, the United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. anti-trust case of 1948 severed MGMs connection with Loews Theaters, in 1969, millionaire Kirk Kerkorian bought MGM and proceeded to dismantle the studio. MGM’s film memorabilia was sold through an 18-day auction, and 38 acres of the backlots were sold. Lot 3 was razed while Lot 2 was sold to housing developments, Kerkorian used the money to construct his hotel chain, the MGM Grand Hotels. In 1981, Kerkorians Tracinda Corporation acquired United Artists and merged it with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to become MGM/UA Entertainment Co and he then sold MUEC to Ted Turner in 1986, who after 74 days, sold MGM/UA back to Kerkorian while retaining the pre-1986 MGM film library. In 1986, the studio was sold to Lorimar-Telepictures, during that time, the MGM logo was removed from the studios and moved across the street to the Filmland Building before their 1992 move to Santa Monica and finally settling in Century City. In 1989, Warner Communications acquired Lorimar-Telepictures and that year, Sony hired producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber to run the companys newly acquired Columbia Pictures Entertainment unit, even though they had a contract with Warner Bros. To resolve this issue, Warner sold their Lorimar lot to Columbia, Columbia had been sharing with Warner Bros. their studio lot in Burbank in a partnership called the Burbank Studios beginning in 1972. Sony sold its interest in the Burbank Studios as a result of the Guber-Peters issue, Sony acquired the property, first renamed Columbia Studios, in poor condition and thereafter invested $100 million to renovate the studio complex. The property underwent a comprehensive plan as it transitioned to the 45 acres Sony Pictures Studios complex

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CBS Studio Center
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CBS Studio Center is a television and film studio located in the Studio City district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. It is located at 4024 Radford Avenue and takes up a piece of land. The lot, which is not open to the public for tours, has 18 sound stages from 7,000 to 25,000 square feet,220,000 square feet of office space, and 223 dressing rooms. It is one of two studio facilities owned by CBS in Los Angeles, California, the other is CBS Television City on Beverly Boulevard, the company also previously had ownership of two other studios, Columbia Square and the Paramount Pictures lot. Mack Sennett, a silent film producer and director, came to the San Fernando Valley and he previously operated a smaller studio on Glendale Boulevard in Echo Park where he produced films featuring the Keystone Kops, Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Buster Keaton, W. C. After creating the Studio City lot, Sennett in five years was forced to file bankruptcy, Mascot, which specialized in serials, renamed the studio after itself. By 1935, another company, Monogram Pictures, along with Mascot. The studio lot was renamed Republic Studios, the new studio specialized in B-movies, including many Westerns starring the likes of Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and John Wayne, all of whom got their first breaks with Republic. Also, Four Star Productions leased the lot for many of its series like The Rifleman, Dick Powells Zane Grey Theater, Republic Pictures ceased production in 1958 and Victor M. Carter became its president in 1959. Carter built Republic into a business with foci outside of the television and film business. In 1963, CBS Television became the lessee of the lot. Almost immediately after leasing the Republic Pictures lot, CBS began to place their network-produced filmed shows there, including Gunsmoke, My Three Sons, and Gilligans Island. The Gilligans Island lagoon was located at the edge of the lot. While under lease, the facility was renamed the CBS Studio Center, the network finally purchased the 70-acre lot outright from Republic in February 1967, for $9.5 million. That same month, Republic also sold off its film library, CBS built new sound stages, office buildings, and technical facilities. To make up for these investments, CBS began to rent out its studio lot for independent producers, moores memorable sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, began filming here in 1970, along with its spinoffs, Rhoda, Phyllis, and Lou Grant. In July 1982, CBS formed a partnership with 20th Century Fox to share ownership of the Studio Center, thus once again renaming, however, that relationship was short-lived as Fox sold its interest of the Studio Center to MTM, and it became CBS-MTM Studios. In March 1992, the once again became CBS Studio Center

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Guiding Light
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Guiding Light was created by Irna Phillips, and began as an NBC Radio serial on January 25,1937. On June 2,1947, the series was transferred to CBS Radio, before starting on June 30,1952 and it continued to be broadcast concomitantly on radio until June 29,1956. The series was expanded from 15 minutes to a half-hour during 1968, the series broadcast its 15, 000th CBS episode on September 6,2006. On April 1,2009, it was announced that CBS had canceled Guiding Light after a 72-year run due to low ratings. The show taped its final Procter & Gamble scenes for CBS on August 11,2009, on October 5,2009, CBS replaced Guiding Light with an hour-long revival of Lets Make a Deal, hosted by Wayne Brady. Guiding Light has had a number of plot sequences during the long history. These plot sequences include complex storylines, and different writers and casting, the series was created by Irna Phillips, who based it on personal experiences. These sermons originated the idea of the creation of The Guiding Light, the original radio series was first broadcast as 15-minute episodes on NBC Radio, starting on January 25,1937. The series was transferred to CBS Radio during 1947, the Guiding Light was broadcast first by CBS Television on June 30,1952. With the transition to television, the characters became the Bauers. These episodes were also 15 minutes long, during the period from 1952 to 1956, The Guiding Light existed as both a radio and television serial, with actors recording their performances twice for each day that the shows were broadcast. The radio broadcast of The Guiding Light ceased production during 1956, the Guiding Light ranked as the number one-rated soap opera during both 1956 and 1957, before being replaced during 1958 by As the World Turns. After Irna Phillips was transferred to As the World Turns during 1958, the first television producer of The Guiding Light was Luci Ferri Rittenberg, who produced the show over 20 years. Agnes Nixon relinquished her role as chief writer during 1965 to work for the series Another World, on March 13,1967, The Guiding Light was first broadcast in color. On September 9,1968, the program was expanded from 15 to 30 minutes, the show also became a bit more topical during the 1960s, with such storylines as Bert Bauers diagnosis of uterine cancer in 1962. A number of new characters were introduced during the mid- to late 1960s, including Dr. Sara McIntyre, who remained a major character through the early 1980s. Charlotte was murdered by Kit on August 26,1973, and then Kit herself was shot by Dr. Joe Werner in self-defense on April 24,1974, after she had attempted to poison Dr. Sara McIntyre. A pivotal character, off-and-on, until the spring of 1998, the role of Roger was originally proposed to be blonde, fair-skinned preppy type, a man who was dating his bosss daughter Holly

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Let's Make a Deal
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Lets Make a Deal is a television game show that originated in the United States in 1963 and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world. The program was created and produced by Stefan Hatos and Monty Hall, the format of Lets Make a Deal involves selected members of the studio audience, referred to as traders, making deals with the host. In most cases, a trader will be offered something of value, the programs defining game mechanism is that the other item is hidden from the trader until that choice is made. The trader thus does not know if he or she is getting something of value or a prize that is referred to as a zonk. Lets Make a Deal is also known for audience members who dress up in outrageous or crazy costumes in order to increase their chances of being selected as a trader. Wayne Brady is the host of the current series, with Jonathan Mangum as his announcer/assistant, tiffany Coyne joined the series as Fioris replacement in 2010 and musician Cat Gray joined the program in 2011. Danielle Demski filled in for Coyne while the latter was on maternity leave for part of the 2013–14 season, Lets Make a Deal first aired on NBC in 1963 as part of its daytime schedule. The show moved to ABC in 1968, where it remained until 1976, the first syndicated edition of Lets Make a Deal premiered in 1971. Distributed by ABC Films, and then by its successor Worldvision Enterprises once the rules were enacted. A revival of the based in Halls native Canada was launched in 1980. This series was produced by Catalena Productions and distributed in America by Rhodes Productions, in the fall of 1984, the series returned for a third run in syndication as The All-New Lets Make a Deal. Running for two seasons until 1986, this series was distributed by Telepictures, NBC revived Lets Make a Deal twice in a thirteen-year span. The first was a series in 1990 that was the first to not be produced or hosted by Monty Hall. Instead, the show was a production of Ron Greenberg and Dick Clark, a primetime edition was launched in 2003 but drew poor ratings and was cancelled after three of its intended five episodes had aired. A partial remake called Big Deal, hosted by Mark DeCarlo, was broadcast on Fox in 1996, in 1998 and 1999, Buena Vista Television was in talks with Stone-Stanley to create a revival hosted by Gordon Elliott, but it was never picked up. The show was one of several used as part of the summer series Gameshow Marathon on CBS in 2006, as noted above, CBS revived Lets Make a Deal in 2009. The revival premiered on October 5,2009, and CBS airs the show daily at 10,00 am and 3,00 pm Eastern time. From September 20 to October 15,2010, Lets Make a Deal, CBS did this to fill a gap between the final episode of As the World Turns, which ended a fifty-four year run on September 17,2010, and the debut of The Talk

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The Dating Game
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The Dating Game is an ABC television show. It first aired on December 20,1965 and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s, ABC dropped the show on July 6,1973, but it continued in syndication for another year as The New Dating Game. The program was revived three times in syndication afterwards. The first revival premiered in 1978 and ran until 1980, the second ran from 1986 until 1989, Jim Lange hosted The Dating Game for its entire ABC network run and the 1973 and 1978 syndicated editions. The 1986 revival was hosted by Elaine Joyce for its first season, when the show was revived with a different format in 1996, Brad Sherwood was named as its host. Chuck Woolery took over in 1997 when the format was reinstated and hosted for the last two seasons. Beginning in 1966, The Dating Game was often paired with The Newlywed Game and this was especially true when the two shows entered syndication, in fact, in 1996 the revivals of both The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game were sold as a package called The Dating-Newlywed Hour. Typically, a bachelorette would question three bachelors, who were hidden from her view, at the end of the questioning period, she would choose one to go out with on a date paid for by the show. Before becoming famous, Farrah Fawcett, Suzanne Somers, Yvonne Craig, Lindsay Wagner, Leif Garrett, Tom Selleck and Lee Majors appeared as contestants on the show in the 1960s and early 1970s. Serial killer Rodney Alcalas episodes were shown during his murder spree, one standard trademark was that at the end of each episode, the host and winning contestants would blow a kiss to the viewers. Generally the bachelorette would ask questions written in advance on cards to each of the three hidden bachelors, the same question could be asked to multiple bachelors. This continued until time ran out, the bachelorette would make her choice based solely on the answers to her questions. Occasionally, the contestant was a bachelor who would ask questions to three bachelorettes, certain kinds of questions were off-limits, such as name, age, occupation, and income. When the original returned to the syndicated revival in 1997. For the first season of the 1996 revival, The Dating Game used a different format, a notable change was that the prospective bachelor/bachelorette knew what the first names of his or her potential dates were at all times. Instead of asking questions of their date, the bachelor/bachelorette was presented with two pun-laden statements, each pertaining to one of the potential dates. When chosen, a new statement replaced the old statement and the potential date explained the reason why that fact pertained to them, play continued until time expired, after which the bachelor/bachelorette gave their choice. In several weeks of episodes aired at various times throughout the season

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Kaufman Astoria Studios
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The Kaufman Astoria Studios is a historic movie studio located in the Astoria section of the New York City borough of Queens. It is home to New York Citys only backlot, which opened in December 2013, the studio was originally built by Famous Players-Lasky in 1920 to provide the company with a facility close to the Broadway theater district. Many features and short subjects were filmed here between 1920 and 1933, the first two Marx Brothers films were shot here, The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers, before the team moved to Los Angeles. The first Sherlock Holmes sound film, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, was made at the studio by the British producer Basil Dean. The Dance of Life was a film shot on sound stages. It was also known as Astoria Studio and Paramount Studio, all the films starring Tango icon Carlos Gardel made in the United States were shot at the Kaufman Astoria. The property was designated a historic district and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The district encompasses six contributing buildings, in 1982, the property was taken over by real estate developer George S. Kaufman and renamed Kaufman Astoria Studios. Motion pictures filmed there include the musicals Hair and The Wiz, in 1984, The Jacksons music video Torture was filmed there as well. The 1986 movie The Money Pit starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long, many sequences, especially the visitation sequence in 2002 TV mini series Angels in America, were also shot here. A2009 remake, The Taking of Pelham 123, in 2011, the remake of Arthur filmed a few scenes there. Television shows filmed at the studio include Sesame Street, Onion News Network, Johnny and the Sprites, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego, and its successor Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego. WFAN, a sports radio station owned by CBS, was formerly based at the studio before moving to lower Manhattan in the fall of 2009. Kaufman Astoria Studios has seven sound stages including the new Stage K, in 2008, Marty Robinson, who plays Aloysius Snuffleupagus, Telly Monster, and Slimy the Worm on Sesame Street married Annie Evans, a writer for the show on the Sesame Street set. The ceremony was performed on the steps of 123 Sesame Street, on December 3,2013, a 34,800 square foot backlot was dedicated. It is the studio backlot in New York City. In 2014 Kaufman Astoria Studios has announced plans to build a new 18, Kaufman Astoria Studios recently contracted to have a Photovoltaic Array installed on the roof of their facility. The project was developed by Lionshead Energy of Queens, NY, while the installation is being handled by Solar Landscape, based in Neptune, notes Media related to Kaufman Astoria Studios at Wikimedia Commons Official website Historic American Buildings Survey No

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Dean Cain
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Dean George Cain is an American actor, producer, writer, director, and television show host. He is known for his role as Superman in the TV series Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman, host of Ripleys Believe It or Not. Cain was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan, the biological son of Roger Tanaka and actress Sharon Thomas. He is of French Canadian, Irish, Japanese, and Welsh descent, in 1969, Cains mother married film director Christopher Cain, who adopted Dean and his brother, musician Roger Cain, the family moved to Malibu, California. They later had a daughter, actress Krisinda Cain, Cain attended Santa Monica High School, where he excelled in sports. Among his schoolmates were Charlie Sheen, who played on the baseball team as Cain when they were children, as well as Rob Lowe and his brother. He graduated from school in 1984 and attended Princeton University. He dated actress Brooke Shields while at the university and he graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts in history, his senior thesis was titled The History and Development of the Functions of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Immediately after graduating, Cain signed on as an agent with the Buffalo Bills. In 1993, Cain took on his biggest role to date as Superman in the television series Lois & Clark, at the height of its popularity, it would bring in an average of at least 15 million viewers per episode. The series ran for four seasons, ending in 1997, in 1998, Cain started the Angry Dragon Entertainment production company, which produced the TBS Superstation television series Ripleys Believe It or Not. He has also starred in films, including The Broken Hearts Club, Out of Time. In 2004, he portrayed Scott Peterson in the fact-based made-for-television movie The Perfect Husband and he appeared in a recurring role as Casey Manning in the television series Las Vegas. He is also the star of the VH1 hit series Hit the Floor as Pete Davenport and he was ranked No.33 on VH1s 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90s. Cain was also a contestant in an NBC celebrity reality series called Stars Earn Stripes. He won four out of six missions on the show, though he came in third in the finals, in 2012, he participated in Foxs dating game show The Choice. In 2013, Cain hosted a reality show about Bigfoot called 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty, Cain appeared in the film Gods Not Dead, in which he plays an arrogant businessman. In 2016, Cain played a guest role on the Netflix original series Lady Dynamite as Maria Bamfords ex-fiancé Graham, while the two were both attending Princeton University, Cain dated actress Brooke Shields for two years. In 1997, Cain became engaged to singer Mindy McCready, the couple broke up the following year

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Tim Vincent
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Tim Vincent is a Welsh actor and television presenter, best known for appearing on childrens programme Blue Peter between 1993 and 1997. His broadcasting career has expanded in range and he has presented several Miss World contests, Vincent is now based in the United States where he has presented some mainstream shows such as Access Hollywood and Phenomenon. Vincent was born in Overton, Wrexham, Wales and he was educated at the village primary school and at Maelor Comprehensive School. After his A-levels, he was offered a place a Bournemouth University, Vincent first took to acting at Theatr Clwyd, in nearby Mold. His first television role was playing alcoholic teenager Billy Ryan in the ITV drama series Childrens Ward, Vincent also appeared in pantomime for several years, always playing the role of Dandini in Cinderella, at Southport, Torquay, Widnes and York. From 2000 to 2001, he began playing veterinarian Adam Forrester in Emmerdale and appeared in the film Sorted with Tim Curry, on 16 December 1993, Vincent began presenting Blue Peter. During his time on the programme, he completed the New York Marathon and he left Blue Peter on 24 January 1997, having already featured in two series of the drama Dangerfield and began presenting The Clothes Show. Vincents Blue Peter colleagues in his time were John Leslie, Anthea Turner, Diane-Louise Jordan, Stuart Miles, Katy Hill and he has also appeared on Lily Savages Blankety Blank. After leaving Blue Peter and Dangerfield, Vincent presented Short Change and he starred on the first series of the reality television series, Im Famous and Frightened. in addition to the Sky One series Theres Something About Miriam. In 2005, he presented a Conservative Party party political broadcast, Vincent was a reporter on Access Hollywood. In 2006, he hosted the pilots for GSNs revival of the classic 1980s game show Chain Reaction, Vincent presented the Miss World contest in 2005,2006,2014,2015 and Miss USA in 2007. He also filled in for Meredith Vieira, for a week of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, shortly after, Vincent presented the National Lottery Draws on the BBC. Vincent has lived and worked in the United States for the past few years. In February 2009, Vincent, along with actor Joe Swash, on 24 October 2007, Vincent hosted the NBC series Phenomenon. In 2008, Vincent competed in the series of the UK reality programme Dancing on Ice and was eliminated on 10 February 2008. Vincent has presented shows on Londons 95.8 Capital FM, in May 2011, Vincent joined This Mornings Interactive Hub, presenting on Fridays. List of Blue Peter presenters List of British actors and actresses List of Welsh people Tim Vincent at the Internet Movie Database

Bob Stewart (television producer)
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Bob Stewart, born Isidore L. Steinberg, was an American television game show producer. He was active in the TV industry from 1956 until his retirement in 1991, Stewart is known for creating some of the most popular game shows for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. These shows include To Tell the Truth, Password, and The Price Is Right and his bi

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Bob Stewart in 1998

Dick Clark
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Richard Augustus Wagstaff Dick Clark Jr. was an American radio and television personality, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1957 to 1987. He also hosted the game show Pyramid and Dick Clarks New Years Rockin Eve, Clark was also well known for his trademark sign-off, For now, Dick Clark — so long.

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Dick Clark in 1961

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Dick Clark as host of The $10,000 Pyramid

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Photo of Clark in 1963. His ABC radio show was called "Dick Clark Reports".

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Dick Clark's AB Grill in Branson, Missouri (November 2007)

Bill Cullen
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William Lawrence Francis Cullen was an American radio and television personality whose career spanned five decades. His biggest claim to fame was as a game-show host, over the course of his career, he hosted 23 shows, and earned the nickname Dean of Game Show Hosts. Aside from his duties, he appeared as a panelist/celebrity guest on many other game

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Cullen in 1954.

Donny Osmond
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Donald Clark Donny Osmond is an American singer, actor, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer, in the mid-1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as the Osmonds. Osmond went solo in the early 1970s, covering such hits as Go Away Little Girl, for over thirty-five years,

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Osmond in 2010

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Donny Osmond (the Netherlands, 1973)

Michael Strahan
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Michael Anthony Strahan is a media personality and former American football defensive end who spent his entire 15-year career with the New York Giants of the National Football League. Strahan set a record for the most sacks in a season in 2001, after retiring from the NFL, Strahan became a media personality. He starred in and produced the short-liv

Bob Clayton
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Bob Clayton was an American television game show announcer and host of several shows. He spent his early television career hosting shows in Miami, Florida before moving to New York in the 1960s and he was suddenly replaced in March 1969 by Ed McMahon, but later returned in September 1969 after viewer outrage and declining audience ratings. Wayne Ho

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Clayton as the host of Concentration in 1971.

Steve O'Brien
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Steve OBrien is an American disc jockey from New York City. OBrien has worked at stations, including WCBS-FM, WMGQ, WPLJ. He also worked as a anchor for WNYW-TV and WNBC-TV. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, OBrien was also an announcer on the game show The $20,000 Pyramid

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Jack Clark (television personality)
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Jack Leslie Clark was an American television game show host and announcer. He is best known for hosting The Cross-Wits, and as an announcer for Wheel of Fortune. On the latter, he succeeded original announcer Charlie ODonnell and held the role from 1980 until his death in 1988, when Clark was a student at University of California, Berkeley, he bega

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Jack Clark on The Cross-Wits.

Johnny Gilbert
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Johnny Gilbert III is an American show business personality who has worked mainly on television game shows. Originally a nightclub singer and entertainer, he has hosted and announced a number of shows from various eras. He has become known primarily for his work as the announcer, Gilbert was born in Newport News, Virginia. He began performing by si

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Johnny Gilbert in a 1945 advertisement

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The cast of Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical. Gilbert is the fourth person from the left—in the diamond-pattern costume, next to composer William P. Perry.

Sony Pictures Television
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Sony Pictures Television is an American television production and distribution studio. Based in Culver City, California, it is a division of Sony Pictures, with Children, Designing Women, Seinfeld, The King of Queens, Community, Rules of Engagement, Breaking Bad and The Blacklist. The company also produces Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, in 2009, SP

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Sony Pictures Television Inc.

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Embassy Row (production company)
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Embassy Row is an American television, global-based format, and digital production company based in New York City, owned by Sony Pictures Television. Embassy Row was founded on December 12,2000 by British television producer Michael Davies as Diplomatic, with the help of ABC, Michael Davies was originally a senior vice president for Buena Vista Pro

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Primary businesses

Viacom Enterprises
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Viacom Inc. was an American media conglomerate. They also distributed syndicated shows which originated during the 1980s, with the biggest examples being The Cosby Show, on December 31,2005, the original incarnation of Viacom split into two new companies, resulting in the creation of CBS Corporation and the current incarnation of Viacom. The origin

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Viacom Inc.

20th Century Fox Television
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Twentieth Century Fox Television is the television production subsidiary of 20th Century Fox, and a production arm of the Fox Television Group. 20th Television is the arm of 20th Century Fox Television. 20th Century Fox Television was formed in 1949 as other studios were branching out into production as well. At that time, the company was known as

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Twentieth Century Fox Television, Inc.

Carolco Pictures
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The company was founded through the partnership of two film investors, Mario Kassar and Andrew Vajna. The two were hailed by Newsweek as some of the most successful independent producers, by the age of 25, Vajna went from wig-maker to the owner of two Hong Kong theaters. Then, Vajna ventured into the production and distribution of feature films, On

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Carolco Pictures, Inc.

Columbia TriStar Television
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Columbia TriStar Television was an American television studio that was active from 1994 to 2002. After the merger, Columbia Pictures Television Distribution was renamed as Columbia TriStar Television Distribution, expanding its television library in 1994, SPE acquired Stewart Television. Its global subsidiary, Columbia TriStar International Televis

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Columbia TriStar Television logo used from 1997 until 2002.

CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network,

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Paley's management saw a twentyfold increase in gross income in his first decade.

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Wholesome Kate Smith, Paley's choice for La Palina Hour, was unthreatening to home and hearth

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When Charlie Chaplin finally allowed the world to hear his voice after 20 years of mime, he chose CBS's airwaves to do it on.

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CBS west coast headquarters reflected its industry stature while hosting its top Hollywood talent.

American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separ

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ABC's corporate headquarters are located at 77 West 66th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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American Broadcasting Company

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Edward Noble, founder of ABC

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In 2002, dancers and other cast members from the 32-year run of American Bandstand reunited with host Dick Clark to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show's local television debut.

Game Show Network
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Game Show Network is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that is owned as a joint venture between Sony Pictures Television and AT&T Entertainment Group. The channels programming is dedicated to game shows, including reruns of classic game shows, along with new, first-run original. For a period in the mid-2000s, Game Show Netw

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Primary businesses

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Game Show Network

Game show
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Alternatively, a gameshow can be a demonstrative program about a game. In the former, contestants may be invited from a pool of public applicants, on some shows, contestants compete against other players or another team, while other shows involve contestants playing alone for a reward or a high score. Game shows often reward players with prizes suc

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U.S. military servicemen participate in television game show Wheel of Fortune with host Pat Sajak.

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Game Show

Jeopardy!
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Jeopardy. is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show features a competition in which contestants are presented with general knowledge clues in the form of answers. The original daytime version debuted on NBC on March 30,1964, a weekly nighttime syndicated edition aired from September 1974 to September 1975, and a revival,

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Alex Trebek has hosted the daily syndicated version since 1984.

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The layout of the Jeopardy! game board since November 26, 2001, showing the dollar values used in the first round

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Kelly Miyahara of the Clue Crew at the International CES in Winchester, Nevada

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Various sets used by the syndicated version over the years. From top to bottom: 1984–85, 1985–91, 1991–96, 1996–2002, 2002–09, and 2009–13.

Watergate scandal
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When the conspiracy was discovered and investigated by the U. S. Congress, the Nixon administrations resistance to its probes led to a constitutional crisis. The term Watergate, by metonymy, has come to encompass an array of clandestine and those activities included such dirty tricks as bugging the offices of political opponents and people of whom

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Watergate complex

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President Nixon giving a televised address explaining release of edited transcripts of the tapes on April 29, 1974

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Nixon's resignation letter, August 9, 1974

NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the

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The Comcast Building in New York City (or the GE Building, originally the RCA Building) serves as the headquarters of NBC.

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National Broadcasting Company

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Radio City West was located at Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles until it was replaced by a bank in the mid-1960s.

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Entrance at the GE Building.

Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1

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Glen-Holly Hotel, first hotel in Hollywood, at the corner of what is now Yucca Street. It was built in the 1890s.

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Hollywood Hotel, 1905

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The intersection of Hollywood and Highland, 1907

CBS Television City
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CBS Television City, alternatively Television City, is a television studio complex located in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles at 7800 Beverly Boulevard, at the corner of North Fairfax Avenue. Since 1961, it has served as the control facility for CBSs west coast television network operations, prior to that. The companys West Coast radio producti

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CBS Television City in Los Angeles

Ed Sullivan Theater
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The Ed Sullivan Theater, located at 1697–1699 Broadway between West 53rd and West 54th, in the Theater District in Manhattan, is a venerable radio and television studio in New York City. The theater has been used as a venue for live and taped CBS broadcasts since 1936 and it is historically known as the home of The Ed Sullivan Show and the site of

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The Ed Sullivan Theater with the Late Show with David Letterman marquee

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Ed Sullivan

The Price Is Right (U.S. game show)
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The Price Is Right is an American television game show created by Bob Stewart, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. The show revolves around contestants competing to identify accurate pricing of merchandise to win cash, Contestants are selected from the studio audience when the announcer proclaims the shows famous catchphrase, Come on down. The program pr

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Bob Barker (host from September 1972 to June 2007)

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The Price Is Right

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Drew Carey (host since October 2007)

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Dennis James hosted a nighttime version of the show from 1972 to 1977.

Bob Barker
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Robert William Bob Barker is an American former television game show host. Born in Darrington, Washington to modest circumstances, Barker enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II, Barker worked part-time in radio while he attended college. In 1950, Barker moved to California in order to pursue a career in broadcasting and he was given

Family Feud
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Family Feud is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson where two families compete to name the most popular responses to survey questions in order to win cash and prizes. It is considered a spin-off of Match Game, whose panel included original host Richard Dawson, the program premiered on ABC on July 12,1976, and ran as part of its

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Family Feud

Ray Combs
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Raymond Neil Ray Combs, Jr. was an American comedian, actor, and game show host. Combs began his career as a stand-up comedian in the 1980s. His popularity on the circuit led to him being signed as the host of the revival of the game show Family Feud. The show aired on CBS and was in syndication until 1994, from 1995 to 1996, Combs hosted another g

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Combs in a 1988 publicity photo for Family Feud

Sony Pictures Studios
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The facility is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment and houses the divisions film studios, Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, and Screen Gems. The complex was the studios of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1924 to 1986. In addition to films shot at the facility, several shows have been broadcast live or taped there. The lot, which is open to the public

CBS Studio Center
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CBS Studio Center is a television and film studio located in the Studio City district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. It is located at 4024 Radford Avenue and takes up a piece of land. The lot, which is not open to the public for tours, has 18 sound stages from 7,000 to 25,000 square feet,220,000 square feet of office space, and 223 dres

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CBS Studio Center, Soundstage 2 in Los Angeles

Guiding Light
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Guiding Light was created by Irna Phillips, and began as an NBC Radio serial on January 25,1937. On June 2,1947, the series was transferred to CBS Radio, before starting on June 30,1952 and it continued to be broadcast concomitantly on radio until June 29,1956. The series was expanded from 15 minutes to a half-hour during 1968, the series broadcast

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Guiding Light

Let's Make a Deal
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Lets Make a Deal is a television game show that originated in the United States in 1963 and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world. The program was created and produced by Stefan Hatos and Monty Hall, the format of Lets Make a Deal involves selected members of the studio audience, referred to as traders, making deals with th

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Let's Make a Deal

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Alison Fiori models one of the CBS version's Zonk prizes, a live llama

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Jay Stewart and Monty Hall on the original version of the show

The Dating Game
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The Dating Game is an ABC television show. It first aired on December 20,1965 and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s, ABC dropped the show on July 6,1973, but it continued in syndication for another year as The New Dating Game. The program was revived three times in syndication afterwar

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The Dating Game

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Comedian Pat Paulsen makes a guest appearance in 1968.

Kaufman Astoria Studios
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The Kaufman Astoria Studios is a historic movie studio located in the Astoria section of the New York City borough of Queens. It is home to New York Citys only backlot, which opened in December 2013, the studio was originally built by Famous Players-Lasky in 1920 to provide the company with a facility close to the Broadway theater district. Many fe

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Paramount Studios Complex

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The former 36th Street, recently gated as a back lot

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Addisleigh Park

Dean Cain
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Dean George Cain is an American actor, producer, writer, director, and television show host. He is known for his role as Superman in the TV series Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman, host of Ripleys Believe It or Not. Cain was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan, the biological son of Roger Tanaka and actress Sharon Thomas. He is of French Ca

Tim Vincent
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Tim Vincent is a Welsh actor and television presenter, best known for appearing on childrens programme Blue Peter between 1993 and 1997. His broadcasting career has expanded in range and he has presented several Miss World contests, Vincent is now based in the United States where he has presented some mainstream shows such as Access Hollywood and P